secern

v. 区别, 分开, 分泌

发音

UK /sɪˈsɜːn/
其它
UK /sə-/
US /səˈsɝn/

词形变化

secerned secerneth secerning secerns 三单 secerns secerning 现在分词 secerned 过去式 secerned 过去分词 secernest secernedst 过去式 secerneth 三单 secerned 复数

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).

    古体 文学 及物
  2. 2.

    To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.

    文学 及物 引申义
  3. 3.

    Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”).

    古体 文学 及物 医学
  4. 4.

    Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.

    不及物 文学
  5. 5.

    To secrete a substance.

    不及物 文学 罕用 医学

词汇关系

动词

同义词 7

tell separate distinguish differentiate secernate severalize tell apart

上位词 2

place identify

下位词 10

know sex separate label contrast discriminate individualize single out contradistinguish decouple

词源

PIE word *swé Learned borrowing from Latin sēcernere, the present active infinitive of sēcernō (“to put apart, divide, separate, sever, sunder; (figuratively) to disjoin, dissociate, part; to discern, distinguish; to exclude, pull aside, set aside, reject”), from sē- (prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’) + cernō (“to divide, separate; to distinguish, sift; to perceive, see; to comprehend, discern, regard, understand; to decide”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate, sift”)). Senses 1.3 and 2.2 (“synonym of secrete”) derive from the use of the Latin word sēcernere to translate Ancient Greek ἀποκρίνειν (apokrínein), the active infinitive participle of ἀποκρίνω (apokrínō, “to set apart, separate; to choose; to reject on inquiry; to answer, reply”).

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